Surrogate image: Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. June 1943. Woman workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Mrs. Dorothy De Greenia, slip woman, doesn't find her job hard after years of housework. John Collier. Photograph, 1943. (LC-USW3-34072-E).
Interview Excerpt: "When you worked as a maid, did you mainly do housework?"
"But my dear, it wasn't housework I did...I was a nurse maid or a second girl--never just an ordinary girl out to service...You got hired by your looks and even if you looked honest, they would test you out. Why, once I was making up a bed, and right beside the bed was a five dollar bill. I knowed nobody dropped that for nuthin', so I didn't know if I should pick it up and tell them, or what, but my face burnt like fire, for I knowed I was gettin' tested."
This question and answer given gives me a sence of how African-American people were treated. It seemes to me that no matter who you were or where you came from, that no one trusted you if you were African-American. This also showes that like the idea of Thomas Hobbes in the enlightnment, that poeple belived all African-American were bassically bad and untrustworthy.
Surrogate image: Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. June 1943. Woman workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Mrs. Dorothy De Greenia, slip woman, doesn't find her job hard after years of housework. John Collier. Photograph, 1943. (LC-USW3-34072-E).
Interview Excerpt: "When you worked as a maid, did you mainly do housework?"
"But my dear, it wasn't housework I did...I was a nurse maid or a second girl--never just an ordinary girl out to service...You got hired by your looks and even if you looked honest, they would test you out. Why, once I was making up a bed, and right beside the bed was a five dollar bill. I knowed nobody dropped that for nuthin', so I didn't know if I should pick it up and tell them, or what, but my face burnt like fire, for I knowed I was gettin' tested."This question and answer given gives me a sence of how African-American people were treated. It seemes to me that no matter who you were or where you came from, that no one trusted you if you were African-American. This also showes that like the idea of Thomas Hobbes in the enlightnment, that poeple belived all African-American were bassically bad and untrustworthy.